We’re long past the days of the bouncing, blue-furred Beast who quoted Shakespeare and pulled lighthearted pranks while simultaneously trying to cure the Legacy Virus. Since the ’90s he’s been on a downward trajectory of devil’s bargains and war crimes. Benjamin Percy steered into the skid, and has spent the most recent arcs of both…
Wikipedia defines Beisa as a species of medium-sized antelope found in the horn of Africa. It’s also the name of a new antagonist for T’Challa as he returns to stalk the streets of Wakanda. If you want to know more about this new volume of Black Panther, read Jude Jones’ review of issue #1, then…
Did you know Chris Bachalo is very good at drawing Illyana Rasputina, aka Magik? Maybe you didn’t because you came up in the 1990s and fell off comics and you only remember Bachalo as the Generation X guy. OK, well, picture Husk but taller and a demon anime princess with a huge Final Fantasy sword….
Listen, I know it isn’t SEO friendly but I don’t know how to write a headline that is more clear than how Beast is Nimrod now. I wanted to call him Beastrod but when you Google that you just get some upsetting fan art of that guy who joined your party at Hallow Bastion in…
Kid Cable returns to stop the events of the Hellfire Gala. Destiny offers unclear warnings to Rogue. And the breakout character of X of Swords is back. There’s apparently way too much going on in next week’s X-Men #24. Check out our exclusive preview, see if you can decipher Destiny’s dire predictions and keep scrolling…
She can take a cloud and tease out a thunderstorm. She can turn a tornado into a blizzard. And she’s not afraid to cut you. She is the most interesting mutant in the world. Siena Blaze. Just kidding, it’s Storm. We’re talking about Storm. Check out our exclusive preview of Storm #2, and get those…
We’re on record as being a pro-Liana Kangas website. So we were a hard yes when our friends at AHOY Comics offered us this exclusive cover reveal for the new volume of their black-and-white werewolf detective series Black’s Myth. Kangas does covers for the series, created by writer Eric Palicki and artist Wendell Cavalcanti, and…
Hey, remember waaaay back in Excalibur (2019) #22 when Pete Wisdom had The Five resurrect the four psychics of STRIKE as part of his plan to take back Britain from Reuben Brousseau and Coven Akkaba, and then Professor X was mean to Pete, Betsy went to Otherworld and literally NOTHING HAPPENED for two years? Well,…
It’s summer and that means it is time to hit the lake with your boys and a thirty-rack of PBR and enjoy that boat of yours. It’s what you live for, isn’t it? Ain’t nothing better in this world then spending the day out on the boat, regardless of what is being shot at you…
The problem with having a group of superheroes forming a coalition government with many of their enemies is that eventually, they have superhero plots to do while their enemies have scheming to under go. What does that mean? It means that 33% of your legislative body can be infected by a potential virus that makes…
It’s always nice to see an Avenger and an X-man hang out and there NOT be a misunderstanding-based fight. Here, Tony Stark, a guy good for about a Civil War a decade, helps Betsy Braddock hatch a plan to take care of her The-Fury-It-Kills-Superheroes problem. Meanwhile, her girlfriend, Askani, is hanging out in the library….
When the doors to the House Of X opened, Cyclops asked “Did you honesty think that we were going to sit around forever and just take it?” Well the collective known as Orchis has spent nearly four years alternating between sitting around and taking it. Did you honestly think that’s all they were going to…
Cannot be more clear about the events of this preview than I have been in the title. Wolverine plays drinking games with big boys like Juggernaut, Blob and Strong Guy. These gentlemen are much larger than Laura (who, for the record, is not the Laura currently dating Synch, it’s the one who was accidently resurrected…
What a month for Victor LaValle. He’s got a new novel, his first since The Changeling, hitting shelves to a positive reception. The Lone Woman promises LaValle’s trademark mix of literary fiction expertise with genre bending suspense; taking traditionally lowly-regarded material and elevating them to a place of honor. He does this by the simple…
Dear readers, it is so important that you know the kissing parts and Dad parts of Marauders #12 are unrelated. X-Men books contain multitudes and those multitudes are having feelings about your new girlfriend from a far distant past mutant society as well as other people having feelings about their mob affiliated Dad who, to…